The government is to put pressure on Google to block illicit filesharing websites from its search results as part of fresh attempts to combat online piracy.Google will on Wednesday face calls from the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to “make life more difficult” for sites that infringe copyright.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/13/google-block-filesharing-sitesAlso see:Government set to press Google on copyright filtering
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will call on Google to remove sites from its search results that are used for copyright infringement, according to a report.On Tuesday, the Financial Times reported that Hunt would give a speech at the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention on Tuesday evening, in which he says online companies should take “reasonable steps” to make it more difficult for people to find unlawfully distributed content.
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Google faces UK pressure to block filesharing sites
The government is to put pressure on Google to block illicit filesharing websites from its search results as part of fresh attempts to combat online piracy.